My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny.

Experience is always larger than language.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.

I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin.